Appeal No. 1999-2800
Application No. 08/761,659
reads:
A catheter section comprising:
a) a tubular forming member having a first form and a
second form different from the first form, and
b) a heat softenable polymeric covering exterior to said
tubular forming member, said covering maintaining said tubular
forming member in said first form until subjected to a heating
step,
wherein upon heating said catheter section, said
polymeric covering softens and said forming member self-forms
to said second form and said forming member maintains said
second form upon cooling.
The reference applied in the final rejection is:
Samson 5,702,373 Dec. 30,
1997
(filed Aug. 31, 1995)
The appealed claims stand finally rejected as follows:1
(1) Claims 1 to 7, anticipated by Samson, under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e);
(2) Claims 8 to 17, unpatentable over Samson, under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a).
Considering first the rejection of claim 1, Samson
discloses a catheter having a braid 206 of a superelastic
1In an Advisory Action dated Feb. 10, 1999, the examiner
stated that the rejections made in the final rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 112 had been overcome.
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